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M. L. HILLER.

METHOD OF ORNAMENTING FABRICS.

No. 399,897. Patented Mar. 19, 1889.

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MICHAEL L. HILLER,

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OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

METHOD OF ORNAMENTING FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 399,897, dated March 19, 1889..

Application illec December 5, 1888. Serial No- 292,'725. (N0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MICHAEL L. IIILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Ornamentation of Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates'to the ornamentation of fabrics; and it consists in embroidering the surfaces of material in a novel and inexpensive manner, as is herein described, illustrated in the drawings, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters of reference point out similar parts on each figure, Figure 1 represents a shoe-vamp ornamented with a design in beads in the ordinary manner; Fig. 2, a shoe-vamp ornamented with leaves composed of beads springing from stamen or leaders composed of continuous lengths of cord, according to my invent-ion.

In the drawings, A represents continuous lengths of cord sewed upon the surface of material, illustrated as the vamp of a shoe.

(t represents leaves composed of a series of beads in a manner well known in the art of ornamenting fabrics.

It is customary in analogous devices to form the leaves or flora, as well as the stalks, leaders, or outlines from which leaves, tendrils, or flora extend, by means of separate beaded stitches, as illustrated in Fig. 1. It is obvious that this involves considerable labor and The object of my invention is to pro duce the same general effect at a reduction of labor and expense by composing the stalk or stamina of the general design of one or more continuous lengths of cord, which, when sewed in place, as illustrated in Fig. 2, have the appearance of lines of beaded Work.

I herein denominate the stamina A generically as leaders, including thereby the stalks, outlines, and all characters of lineal work that compose portions of a general design. By the terms flora and floriform I include all forms representing leaves, flowers, pistils, tendrils, and those parts of a general design, whether floriform or not, that outlie or spring from the leaders. I do not desire to be understood as limiting myself to the employment of any given design, nor simply to illustrations of plants, flowers, or any description of flora. My invention is equally applicable to arabesque designs or any character of configurative ornamentation having leaders composed of continuous lengths of cord, from which outlie leaves, tendrils, pistils, floriations, or any small bead-work extensions, which, in combination with the leaders A, constitute a given composite design.

For convenience of description I have illustrated my invention as applied to a shoevam p, but do not limit myself to its employment thereto, nor to its application to leather only, as it is my intention. to utilize it for ornamentation of textile and other fabrics.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. I11 the artof ornamentation of fabrics, an embroidered surface, the leaders of the design being composed of one or more lengths of cord sewed flatly in place, and having extending from said cord lengths of smaller members of the general design composed of a series of beaded work, substantially as described.

2. The within-described means for ornamenting surfaces of fabrics, which consists in the combination of leaders A, formed of lengths of cord sewed in place upon such surfaces, with extensions branched out therefrom composed of series of bead-work, as and for the purpose indicated, substantially as de scribed.

MICHAEL L. ITILJLER. lVitnesses:

CHARLES A. ScHULn, ll. DEGEBY. 

